The fools who would open the gates to an Islamic Europe

The ignorant idiots who constantly call for "peace" in the Middle East are mainly responsible for the relentless war we now see there.

Listen to them all with their talk of "banging heads together" and "cycles of violence", their road maps and their summits and their drivel about "land for peace".

Most of them probably could not tell you, for example, what the San Remo accords were, what the Hebron massacre was or who Haj Amin al Husseini was and why they matter.

I won't bore you just now with the answers, but let me put it this way: First, it was our idea to support a Jewish state in the Middle East. Second, for almost a century we have encouraged the Arab world to believe it can violently prevent or destroy a Jewish state in the Middle East.

For example, we put pressure on Israel to accept a mad agreement to pull its forces out of southern Lebanon. The Lebanese government and army, which everyone knows to be feebler than the Toytown Constabulary, were supposed to take control of the area.

Of course they didn't, so Hezbollah, armed and financed by Syria and Iran, dug in.

Is any intelligent person in the Washington or London governments surprised that Hezbollah is now showering rockets on northern Israel?

I cannot believe that they are so stupid. In which case, they are responsible.

If the great nations of the free world want to see Israel disappear, as they secretly seem to, why don't they just say so and be done with it?

Heaven knows Israel is a difficult friend. Its moronic response to Hezbollah provocation has been an Arab propagandist's dream. The death of a single child from Israeli bombardment cancels out any military gains Israel may have made, not that it has made any in my view.

But it would be shameful to abandon Israel even so.

We created it because it seemed both necessary and just. To betray our own idea would be to encourage the worst form of Muslim intolerance and to signal that in the end we have no guts.

Fancy an Islamic Europe, anyone?

So how long before Britain has a political party for paedophiles?

We are all supposed to be worried about 'sexualised' children in the playgrounds. Battalions of social workers are being sent to deal with this, though how you can desexualise a child, I don't know.

It seems to me that parents are to blame. They think it charming when their little girls bump and grind to disco music, they give them nasty, knowing Bratz dolls, and get angry if they are criticised for doing so.

They dress them like tiny teenagers, in fashions packed with sexual messages. And they let them watch TV shows full of smut that would have been switched off with disgust 40 years ago.

Having cast off restraint, we then destroy innocence. And we have no absolute moral objection to anything.

I see a political party for paedophiles has been set up in the Netherlands. Given the changes we've already accepted, how long before such a campaign is under way here?

Irony of de Menezes killing

I have always thought it would be impossible to prosecute the police officers who shot Jean Charles de Menezes.

It is clear they genuinely believed they were defending the public from a suicide bomber. They made an honest, terrible mistake.

And I am pleased that this view has prevailed. Any serious attempt to protect society from violent enemies carries the risk that innocents may die. And now that we have established that point, can British politicians stop trying to wriggle out of bringing back the death penalty on the grounds that innocents might be executed?

This is a feeble argument. Actually, with modern DNA techniques, plus a jury trial and the chance of an appeal, we are much less likely to hang an innocent man than the police are to shoot one.

Laid waste... the last bastion of good schools

Will anybody in Britain know anything, or know how to do anything, by 2050?

Expensive Harrow School has just discovered that its pupils' supposedly excellent GCSE results don't actually mean that the pupils understand their subjects.

I'd guess a lot of other private schools are in the same position. The debauchery of standards has been a boon for them, making them look far better than they are.

As for the state schools, their poor victims are finding it harder and harder to get into university. Except, that is, in Northern Ireland where the last remaining proper grammar school system survives. There, children from poor homes do better than anywhere else in the UK.

So, in collaboration with Sinn Fein, our Government is about to abolish those grammar schools. And all the main political parties think grammar schools are bad. Are we doomed? I should think so.

Did the dilettante in a boaterwear a Sinn Fein hat too?

I may have been wrong about Anthony Blair. It may be even worse. Since I first met him, I have believed he did not suffer from opinions.

And his official biographies have all supported this view. But now come the revelations of historian David Renton, who says Blair took pro-Sinn Fein positions at Oxford. This is when he is supposed to have been trying to become the next Mick Jagger, or prancing about in Cavalier-length hair and a boater, looking remarkably like the actress Cheryl Campbell.

Even in my revolutionary days, supporting the IRA's front men was far out on the edge. I got someone expelled from my Trotskyite coven for doing just that.

If the truth is that Mr Blair was a closet revolutionary and terror sympathiser, and hasn't had the honesty to admit to it since, then this Government's surrender to all Britain's enemies has a more worrying explanation than I ever thought. Anyone know any more?

• By 2012, the average price of a house will be £300,000. Many of us will by then be living in houses we could not afford to buy if we were starting now.

Our children will not have the slightest hope of buying homes like the ones they grew up in. And fewer and fewer people can afford to trade up to a better house. This is demoralising and wrong and benefits nobody but estate agents and the taxman.

I have never understood why people were pleased to see house prices rising. I understand it even less now. No wonder the young are spending all their money on day-today pleasures.

• Interior Minister John Reid can scrap some of the stupider measures for keeping criminals out of prison. But the problem is the joint Labour and Tory policy of abandoning punishment, not the details of it.